Although I use Norton, I've been on a Free ride too. I wait for Black Friday sales and the usually cost to me is one POSTAGE STAMP to get the rebates. Yeah, I loan Symantec about $50 for 2 months, but it basically is FREE.

Only problem with any of these, you don't know IF you'll have a problem until you do get one. No product is guaranteed to be 100% protection. My wife caught one of those re-direction thingees one time. Turned out it set up a Proxy for her... hard to track down at first as it was new. Many if not all A/V's and Suites do not fix things retroactively even when they are updated to protect for them. A friend caught a variant of it too, but it set the Proxy in his router that had the standard UID and P/W for the router as shipped. Had to call the s/w vendor and pay to have that fixed.

AV-Test's test results indicate that our products detected 72 percent of all "0-day malware" using a sample size of 100 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry from hundreds of millions of systems around the world that 99.997 percent of our customers hit with any 0-day did not encounter the malware samples tested in this test.

AV-Test's test results indicate that our products missed 9 percent of "recent malware" using a sample size of 216,000 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry that 94 percent of these missed malware samples were never encountered by any of our customers."